(n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
(n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
(n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
(n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 87 cervical specimens of unselected female sex workers in massage parlors were tested by an enzyme amplified immunoassay IDEIA Chlamydia test and cell culture for the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis.
(2) Data were obtained by a massage parlor worker--an unnamed coauthor--who recorded information about every personal customer during her initial period of work.
(3) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
(4) Water was offered for 10 min at 1300 h to simulate time in a milking parlor.
(5) Culicoides insignis was recovered from samples taken from muddy areas in pastures and margins of vegetated ponds, whereas C. variipennis was collected around waste lagoons and from mud contaminated by effluent from milking parlors.
(6) Parlor throughput was greatest for gel and wash treatments.
(7) Even if you changed the fashion show to a car show and the beauty parlor to a gym, it’s hard to imagine how you could take the camp out of the script.
(8) He reports having had a variety of heterosexual experiences in the past, has come to the parlor because of lack of sexual partner at this particular time or because of curiosity, will come to orgasm during the genital massage, and will find it sexually satisfying.
(9) The 329 women worked in established locales such as saunas, massage parlors, and nightclubs.
(10) The major source of infections in the males younger than 25 years old was their girl friends or so-called pick-up friends, and that of the males older than 25 years old workers serving at an amusement center, for example, bars and so-called special massage parlor, which accounted for about three fourths of the male cases between 35 and 44 years old.
(11) They begin with the assumptions that massage parlors are brothels renamed and that the customers are problematic individuals seeking impersonal sexual exchanges.
(12) One brother's symptoms were provoked by attending an ultraviolet A suntanning parlor.
(13) In occupational rehabilitation they are concerned with monthly luncheon, play entertainment games, go to movies, beauty parlors, ceramics, sewing activities, learning to read and write, and some parties in relevant national dates, all this at the hospital premises.
(14) The article covers information in the following areas of photo-protection: nature of solar radiation; classification of normal individuals into sun-reactive skin types I-VI; minimal erythema doses of UVB and UVA radiation for individuals of skin types I-VI; classification of sunscreens and SPF values of brand-name sunscreens; a list of UVB- and UVA-absorbing chemicals used in sunscreen formulations in the USA; guidelines for recommending topical sunscreens for the prevention of sunburn, skin photoaging, and skin cancer; and concerns about the harmful effects of UVA radiation and tanning parlors on human skin and the methods used to minimize the potential damaging effects of UVA.
(15) Lesions on the udder of lactating animals and the air in the milking parlor were also sampled.
(16) The risk of residue occurrence was decreased in association with the use of milk residue test kits, when the farmer believed that increasing the dose of antibiotic required an increase in the withholding time of milk, and when tie stall and pipeline milking systems were used rather than milking parlors or tie stall and dumping station systems.
(17) Prostitutes were divided into two groups according to the type of place where they worked: direct prostitutes (in brothels, n = 217) and indirect prostitutes (in massage parlors, n = 139).
(18) Needed research includes studying learned helplessness; analysis and economics of alternative husbandry systems for veal calves (and cows) freestall design and surfaces; and shade, cooling, and misting of mangers and holding pens prior to entering the parlor.
(19) By the end of the 19th century, women-only parlor spaces had been created in other establishments, including photography studios, hotels, banks and department stores.
(20) A 65-year-old woman developed a severe, generalized phototoxic reaction following a visit to a suntan parlor.
Patio
Definition:
(n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
Example Sentences:
(1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(2) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(3) Gems has a massive personality, Liz may have fallen down in that regard.” She went on: “If I think Liz Jones has got a face that looks like it’s just walked into a patio door then that’s the line she’s going to get.
(4) Partial surface capping, as would occur with driveways and patios, was found to have a minor effect on soil gas pressures.
(5) Perhaps another is pop's forever-long obsession with watching women, as if they're ants on a hot patio and you're the boy with the magnifying glass.
(6) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
(7) Top finds include organic clothing at ColorHueso (no 7), antiques at Patio Almanzora (no 5) and vintage goods at Quasipercaso (no 1).
(8) Is that her, striding across the Marriot patio, or have I imagined the whole thing?
(9) A Freedom of Information request made to Defra reveals that although the UK is unable to ban patio heaters unilaterally they’re being considered for a shortlist of products that could be banned under the Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products Directive.
(10) Hansen reached the patio and, with others, pushed over a fence.
(11) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
(12) They all have terraces, with the ground-floor rooms opening on to an inner, plant-filled patio.
(13) When I return to the house, the white patio doors – bolted when I left – are still bolted.
(14) On the sun-drenched patio of the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen sat the chancellor of the exchequer.
(15) Sir John ushered George inside to continue their meeting, while out on the patio other Bilderberg briefings carried on apace.
(16) The bar of my favourite hotel, the Belmont ( belmontdallas.com , stylish rooms from $99), patios at Bryan Street Tavern ( bryanstreettavern.com ) and The Cedars Social ( thecedarssocial.com ) are some of the locations affording great views.
(17) The only person awake was her mother, Juana Ocampo, who saw six or seven people – some of them masked, some carrying guns – who approached the house shouting “where is she?” Within minutes the whole family – including Mota’s young nieces and nephew who were visiting for the holidays – were hauled out of their beds and forced to lie face down in the lounge and patio with guns to their heads, as the killers tried to identify their target.
(18) He points out that "building generators, aeroplanes, trains, commercial boilers, patio heaters, all of which also produce the same emissions our sector is working so hard to reduce" have an impact in urban areas such as London.
(19) Downtown Beds: dorm beds from £10, private doubles £28 B&B +52 55 5282 2199, downtownbeds.com El Patio 77 In recent years, the rough-around-the-edges San Rafael neighbourhood has experienced a modest renaissance as young people, and galleries, move into the area’s neglected 19th-century buildings.
(20) Men with skin the colour of patio crying in longships.